Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Jennie McDowell papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0880
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostat copies of land grant, family letters, and poems from the Lindley and Woody families in Indiana, Maryland, and North Carolina ranging from 1813 to 1884.
Dates:
1813-1865, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Jennie McDowell papers
Joaquin Miller collection
Collection — Folder S0958
Identifier: S0958
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one poem, entitled "To Russia" by Joaquin Miller, undated and a program for Joaquin Miller Day at the Panama-Pacific Exposition on November 10, 1915.
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joaquin Miller collection
John A. Botts poem
Collection — Folder S1037
Identifier: S1037
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an eleven-stanza poem written by John A. Botts and dated June 12, 1863. The poem relates the movement and actions of Company C, 59th Indiana Regiment during the Vicksburg campaign of the U.S. Civil War. At the end of the poem there is a note dated June 25, 1863 from William Owen to Mary Owen that says, "Mary I send you this poetry and if you get it I want you to take good Cear [care] of it till I come home."
Dates:
1863/06/12
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John A. Botts poem
John Howard Hanger collection
Collection — Folder S2042
Identifier: S2042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence sent by the John H. Hanger family to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pritchard of Amo, Hendricks County, Indiana, including an invitation to the June 27, 1952 wedding of Beverly Ann Hanger and J. Trall Heitzenrater and year-end greeting cards from 1955 and 1957. The greeting cards share family happenings for the year written in verse by Rev. Hanger.
Dates:
1952-1957
John M. Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: L596
Scope and Contents
This collection includes booklets, letters, photographs, maps, tintypes, newspaper clippings and realia from John M. Smith's personal collection ranging from 1790 to 1997 regarding Indiana history.
Dates:
1804-1982
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John M. Smith collection
John M. Tomey diary and papers
Collection — Folder S3002
Identifier: S3002
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of a typed transcript of the diary kept by John M. Tomey during his military service from January 1, 1864 through September 15, 1864, during the U.S. Civil War. Also included are photocopies of a map of the 27th Regiment's travels and a typescript poem, "Flags of the Twenty-Seventh" by E. R. Brown.
Dates:
1864
John Odell collection
Collection — Folder S1026
Identifier: S1026
Scope and Contents
This collection includes John Odell's school workbook containing his compositions, poems, mathematical equations, and expenses (circa1855 to 1860). The book was re-used as a scrapbook and has news clippings attached to the pages regarding the U.S. Civil War and other items of interest to Mr. Odell (circa1860-1886). One item of note is a clipping of an address he gave during a June 20, 1860 debate on the question of popular sovereignty in the territories.
Dates:
1855-1886
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Odell collection
John Rugenstein collection
Collection
Identifier: L300
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials assembled by John Rugenstein regarding Wendell Willkie and his U.S. presidential campaign in 1940. Included in this collection is campaign memorabilia such as buttons, literature, poetry, postcards, music, stickers and phonograph records. Also included is the correspondence of the various state and local Willkie Clubs, founded in 1940 to promote and support Willkie in his campaign. These items are divided geographically. There is information on the national...
Dates:
1879-1959
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Rugenstein collection
John Tenbrook Campbell papers
Collection
Identifier: L258
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, biographical sketches, a photograph, two scrapbooks, and various writings including editorials, essays, addresses, and poems from John Tenbrook Campbell in Parke County, Indiana and the United States, ranging from circa 1840 to 1911 and undated, regarding his family life and career, military experiences during the U.S. Civil War, business concerning roads and levees, intellectual interests and social concerns, and the...
Dates:
1840-1911, undated
Joseph I. Byrum papers
Collection — Folder S205
Identifier: S0205
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed copy from Joseph I. Byrum, Sr. in South Norfolk, Virginia in 1944 regarding poetry about Indiana.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph I. Byrum papers
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